July, 2012

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Social Tools Collide with Talent Management Software

Josh Bersin

Social networking tools have transformed our lives. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest (read my commentary about Pinterest here), Reddit, and many others have significantly changed the way we. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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4 secrets to leading teams: The ultimate balancing act

Achievers

There is no “I” in team – but there is certainly a leader. Teams are a fixture in the workplace, and they exist at all levels of an organization. With respect to employee engagement, team leadership is essential to success because the team must understand what needs to be accomplished. According to the recent Inc.com article, Leading Teams: Find the Right Balance Between Hands-on and Hands-off , Samuel Bacharach reveals the balance required for effective team leadership.

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Is meditation the key to a happier work life?

45 Things

I had never tried meditation until a few years ago, when personal and professional stresses were giving me insomnia and constant headaches. I decided to give meditation a try, and visited some sites online to learn how to do it. At first, I was impatient to get results. "OK, I'm breathing, dammit," I'd think. "I don't feel calmer. How come I'm not feeling calmer?

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Wanna Bet HR?

NoExcusesHR

'I bet you don''t have the guts to commit to this philosophy HR: "I am a leader who is responsible for everything that happens in my organization first; and I am responsible for what happens in HR second." I bet you don''t know enough about how your company actually generates revenue , manages expenses , contracts with vendors , takes care of its customers , or grows market share.

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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Join the Employee Engagement Network Before July 21!

David Zinger

The Employee Engagement Network needs 35 more members to reach 5000 members. We offer over 9000 free resources for you on employee engagement: Reach out to over 4960 members. Watch 384 videos. Download 8 free e-books. Engage with 4 50-word case studies. Participate in 713 forums. Read 2955 blog posts. Join 38 special interest groups.

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Social Tools Collide with Talent Management Software

Josh Bersin

'Social networking tools have transformed our lives. Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest (read my commentary about Pinterest here), Reddit, and many others have significantly changed the way we. Bersin & Associates, Leading Research and Advisory Services in Enterprise Learning and Talent Management.

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Creativity for the win

Achievers

Have you ever felt like you were stuck in a rut? Most employees have experienced this feeling, at one time or another, in between driving results and maintaining a work-life balance. Sometimes employees need creative inspiration in order to stay engaged. In the Inc.com article, 5 Ways to Win with Creativity , Burt Helm discusses a few ways companies can boost their teams’ creativity, and use big ideas to beat out competition.

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The Hallways of Learning

Conversation Matters

A number of years ago I wrote an article, “The Hallways of Learning” published in Organizational Dynamics , in which I suggested that we might look at the creative, open ended conversations we have in the hallways of our organizations as a metaphor for the kind of conversations we need in the many organizational meetings we hold each day. Our hallway conversations have several useful attributes; they remove some of the sense of hierarchy making participants in the conversation more equal; they i

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50 Shades of Jay

NoExcusesHR

'Leadership comes with a tremendous amount of responsibility. Unfortunately sometimes the authority, power and influence companies bestow on their management team become a source of manipulation and abuse. In Human Resources we see the impact of that behavior too often: stressed employees, nervous about job security, and fearful to speak up for fear of retaliation.

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9 Leave Management Mistakes To Avoid This Year

The article talks about the 9 leave management mistakes that you should be avoiding with smarter technology in your organisation and save business costs.

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Listening for Employee Engagement: Going Deeper into Content + Emotion + Intention

David Zinger

Are you picking up the full content, emotion, and intention communicated by employees? Here are some terrific questions to help you go further into engaged listening for content, emotion, and intention. Content (the content and context of the speaker): What is the speaker saying? What are the facts? What are the inferences? What does the person mean?

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Why you should Come to the HR Technology Conference in October

Bersin with Deloitte

Let's face it, HR technology has been changing faster this year than ever before. Cloud computing, social networking, mobile and tablets, and BigData have totally transformed the way we use technology in business. And when things change this fast, one of the best ways to keep up is to come to the world's biggest technology […]. The post Why you should Come to the HR Technology Conference in October appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.

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How DreamWorks Teaches All Employees to Flex Their Creativity Muscle

45 Things

I know an accountant who does not consider himself artistic or creative. He knows he's organized and good with numbers, and can meet tax deadlines with ease. When he introduces himself to others and mentions he's an accountant, I doubt others say, "Wow, wish I could do such a creative job." But yet he is creative. He takes some of the most beautiful photographs I've ever seen.

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Equal opportunity feedback: Incorporating meaningful recognition from customer recommendations

Achievers

Dear A Advisor, My company has a very large customer service department and their hard work and dedication really shines through in the positive feedback that they receive from customers. I feel like all of this hard work is rarely represented on our online recognition platform; it’s feedback from customers who do not have access to the platform. Is there a way that I can leverage the recognition platform so that it can account for all the hard work in our customer service department?

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Employer Insights Report 2024: The State of Cancer

96% of benefits leaders agree: detecting cancer early is the best way to get ahead of rising costs and improve employee health outcomes. So why is it that 82% of employers currently spend significantly more on post-diagnosis care and disease management rather than upstream care? A new survey of 250 benefits leaders who oversee 500 to 50,000 covered lives highlights their perspective on cancer and its burden.

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Journal Your Way to the Top — Three Ways to Use Performance Journaling

Reviewsnap

'Remember that little diary you kept as a pre-teen? The one filled with your childish thoughts and experiences, all safely tucked away behind an imposing-looking plastic lock. As you got older, the little diary was replaced with a more sophisticated journal to capture all the pleasures and pains of daily life. Some stories were of experiences meant to be savored and relived; others were of life’s greatest lessons learned when things didn’t go your way.

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It's Not Enough

NoExcusesHR

'It''s not enough. to whine to complain to deflect ownership to point fingers to "take under review" to avoid risk to watch others to do nothing to expect someone else to step up to be ordinary to simply hope to ignore difference to make excuses to keep doing what I''ve been doing You and I were meant to do more. Start today. I''d love to hear from you.

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Why "Magic Mike" is the Workplace Movie of the Year

True Faith HR

'HR SEO Gold Yes, a movie about male strippers is the workplace movie of the year. Its a perfect parable for these times. "Magic" Mike (Channing Tatum) is a budding entrepreneur working a roofing job, and stripping on the side with the hopes of raising enough capital to overcome his poor credit score and poor housing market to run his own custom furniture business.

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Microsoft Goes SaaSy and Social With Next Office Release

Bersin with Deloitte

How many of us spend most of our days in Microsoft Office? I know I do. In May, in a visit to Microsoft’s campus with executives from PageUp People, we were able to see prototypes of the new Microsoft Office product. And – dare I say it – it looked pretty cool. Today in […]. The post Microsoft Goes SaaSy and Social With Next Office Release appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.

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Delivering DEI Training That Drives Real Change

Speaker: Jeffrey Hall, Chief Creative Office of WILL Interactive

Great DEI training improves engagement, retention, and teamwork. Poor training does little. What content areas are right for our organization? How can you construct training around empathy-building, relatable stories for a positive disposition to hard topics? We’ll cover the latest research on how to make training that actually delivers attitudinal and behavioral shifts.

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20 Ways to Kill Your Job Application!

TheHRBlog

We spend a great deal of time talking to recruiters, employers and human resource staff every week. I recently sent an email asking some of them what they would list as their top 3 peeves when it came to receiving resumes and short-listing candidates. You should have seen my inbox fill up with responses! Many […].

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Study proves 63% of U.S. workers not fully engaged

Achievers

If you analyzed the employees at your office, how many are actually engaged in their job and committed to your organization? On a larger scale, how many U.S. workers are engaged and willing to exert discretionary effort for their companies? The numbers might surprise you. New research from Towers Watsons’ Global Workforce Study reveals that almost two-thirds (63%) of U.S. workers are not fully engaged in their work.

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The 5 Ingredients Necessary for a Motivational Speech

45 Things

Imagine you’re sitting in a meeting with your boss and some other company bigwigs, and they’ve decided on a new strategy or process that is going to mean some people may lose their jobs , while others will be working harder trying to get things up to speed. “Holy crap,” you think. “Wonder how they’re going to sell that message.” Guess what? They’re not going to sell anything.

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Jam Session.HR Style

NoExcusesHR

'When I was younger…much younger…I played in several rock bands. We were okay ( that''s a bit of a stretch ), but it was certainly fun. Singing and playing for several dozen to several hundred people was a thrill. As I reflect back now I can see that even if the quality of our music was not going to land us a record deal, we created a tremendous amount of energy simply by being focused on the same goal.

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The Ultimate LMS Buyer’s Guide: Everything You Need to Know When Purchasing an LMS

Whether you’re shopping for your very first learning management system (LMS) or looking to upgrade, the process can be overwhelming. With so many vendor options, each with its own multitude of features and pricing structures, even the most seasoned educators, trainers, and business leaders can feel lost in a sea of choices! Finding the LMS that’s best suited for your organization requires a planned, strategic approach.

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Employee Engagement Meditation: No More

David Zinger

More or less? Employee engagement is myopically focused on more and has a major lacuna to the power of less. We are told that we need more productivity, more relationships, more training, and more discretionary effort. Perhaps we need don’t need more effort we need effort-less. Powerful engagement is seeded by less not more. Don’t pile on programs, initiatives, and tasks.

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The Social Recruiting Tool HotList

Bersin with Deloitte

Over the last year we have been flooded with calls, emails, and carrier pigeons telling us about hot new startups in the social recruiting space. And this is no surprise: the combination of cloud technology and smart ideas, fueled by venture funding, has created some amazing new companies. In this blog (which I will update […]. The post The Social Recruiting Tool HotList appeared first on Bersin by Deloitte.

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Positive Professional Development Tool: Career Stepping Stones

The Bamboo Project Blog

In our ongoing career and professional development, there are times when it's helpful to look at our past. It may be that we're bored and contemplating a change. We may have been laid off and had change thrust upon us. Even as part of our ongoing reflective practice , mining our past experiences can give us great fodder for the future. . One way to look at your past is to use a technique pioneered by Ira Progoff as part of his Intensive Journaling process called "Stepping Stones.

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Educate, engage, and entertain: ACE goes head-to-head with Iron Chef

Achievers

While it’s essential to celebrate employee success, it’s equally as important to celebrate your customers. One great way for an organization and its customers to connect around varied successes is to coordinate an annual event, which highlights achievements, familiarizes customers with new insights and additional value, and offers networking opportunities centered around having fun.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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Got A New Boss Again: What To Do?

TheHRBlog

It is a well-known fact that established teams experience “transition pains” under the leadership of newly appointed managers. The stress levels go up, and both the parties use moves and countermoves to outwit each other. New managers, insecure in their roles, often seek absolute compliance to orders from their subordinates, particularly in their early days. […].

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Human Nature, Revenge and HR

NoExcusesHR

'One of my standard, and quite lame , HR jokes is that if it wasn''t for human nature I''d be out of a job. The point being that people behave in such peculiar ways that sooner or later the HR team is going to be called upon to resolve a problem. But what happens when the human nature piece is alive and kicking in the HR team ? Humans First The quality of my professional relationships, for me, represent the most important aspect of my work.

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New Test Identifies Arrogant Bosses

45 Things

Do you have a boss who discredits the ideas of others while claiming to have superior ideas? Does your boss blame other people and refuse to take personal responsibility for anything? Does your boss reject feedback? If so, you have all the makings of an arrogant boss, someone who can drag down an organization with his or her sense of superiority in all things.